Friday, 31 May 2019

Younus AlGohar answers a question from a viewer, ‘Who can practise Zikar-e-Qalb (Invocation of God’s Name in the Heart)?’

Summary:

According to a Prophetic Tradition, 'Zikar Allah is the foremost of all obligations.'

- Zikar is the first obligation and the First Pillar in Islam. There are two types of obligations: permanent obligations and temporary obligations. Zikar is a permanent obligation. Before Salat was brought down, all the Companions would do was Zikar.

A Prophetic Tradition states, 'Whosoever fails to fulfil his permanent obligations, God does not accept any temporary obligations he may have fulfilled.'

Koran 2:152 states, 'Practise my Zikar and I will practise yours.'

- If a Spiritual Guide stops you from practising the first Pillar of Islam, Zikar, then he is not a Spiritual Guide at all. He is a Devil. The Zikar you engage in will free you of the evil spirits and Jinns troubling you. If you have a Spiritual Guide but he forbids you from engaging in Zikar, leave him. Call our WhatsApp number +447380315726 and obtain Zikar-e-Qalb with the blessings of His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi instead.

One Prophetic Tradition states, 'Whoever engages in Zikar is living whereas whoever doesn't is dead.'

- After the Conquest of Mecca, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) advised his Companion to progress from the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad. In that same statement, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) told them that even greater than distributing a mountain of gold for the sake of God was to engage in Zikar with the heart and Lower Self in God’s eyes. The engagement of Zikar by your heart and Lower Self will take you towards God.

- The heart is tarnished because when you sin, as a punishment, that sin is recorded in your Book of Deeds and at the same time, a black spot is placed upon your heart. With an abundance of sins, your heart becomes blackened - when that happens, no advice is effective on it. Neither the Koran nor Prophetic Traditions have any effect on it. That is when the Companions asked the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) how to cleanse the heart. That is when Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said, ‘There is a means of polishing everything that tarnishes. The polish of the heart is Zikar Allah.’

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What is true repentance from sins in the eyes of God? Watch this video featuring Sufi Spiritual Revivalist, Younus AlGohar, to find out.

Summary:

'Avoid committing the Major Sins and I will forgive your Minor Sins.' - Koran 4:31

- The world we live in is full of sins. No matter how pious you are, chances are that you will sin. Any sin that has to do with your inner being is a Major Sin. Any sin that has to do with your body is a Minor Sin.

- Repentance isn't just to say the phrase, 'I won't do it again.' Rather, in reality, repentance is the act of purging the power in you which forces you to sin. God considers the act of purifying your Lower Self to be true repentance from all sins because the Lower Self is the root of evil.

- When the Lower Self starts to be purified, without you pondering over it, you regret sinning and repent over it. This is because the Lower Self changes from the state of the Commanding Self to the Blameworthy Self. The Lower Self makes you feel blameworthy. It says to you, 'What have you done?'

- So your promises and repentance will mean nothing if you don't pay any attention to the state of your Lower Self. True repentance is Touba-tan-Nasooh (Nasooh's Repentance). This only happens when one becomes determined to eradicate the root of evil in them. In other words, to purify the Lowe Self. Even if such a person does not verbally proclaim, 'I repent, God,' that is what he is doing practically.

Koran 87:14 states, 'Verily, he shall be successful who purifies his Lower Self.'

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Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Younus AlGohar answers the question from a viewer who asked, ‘What is Zam (Spiritual Infusion)?

Summary:

- There is just a slight difference between Wahdat and Zam? Wahdat is akin to two individuals embracing each other (unity) whereas Zam is when the realities of both individuals to fuse together.

- The Stage of Wasl is when one of the sub-spirits of the heart is replaced with an entity from God. There are three sub-spirits of the heart which take up three separate chambers within the heart. According to God’s law, the sub-spirits have to be removed first in order for a divine entity to take its place in those God chooses.

- The heart is like a rotating wheel. It changes positions like clockwork. The position of the heart’s sub-spirits changes every so often. The voice of the sub-spirit which faces the Akhfah is heard when a person speaks. When the divine entity in the heart faces the Akhfah, God speaks through that person.

- When Mansoor Hallaj reached the stage of Wahdat, he got the impression that God had dissolved into him. However, this is not possible because God chose oneness for himself. What happened was that God spoke through him when the divine entity in his heart was positioned towards the Akhfah - and during that moment, he said, ‘I am God.’ After his spiritual state changed, he misinterpreted what had occurred and declared that God had dissolved in him. The thought that God and he had been merged in such a way was not possible and fell under the category of Shirk (appointing a partner with God). Mansoor Hallaj was a divine lover and accepted by God, but because of this incident, it was necessary that he be awarded punishment so as to deter any future imposters hoping to emulate Mansoor Hallaj in the future.

- Zam is when an individual from the Unseen World comes on Earth and places one of his Reflections in your body. When the Reflection enters the body, it annihilates all your subtleties and embraces your Main Soul. Then your Main Soul and the Reflection mix in such a way that the two become inseparable. The result is a being that can neither be called man nor God. Then when you speak, people will think it is the Lord who is speaking; when the Lord speaks through you, people will think it is you who is speaking. Once you go through Zam, you ‘die’ on paper and you will not go through the Day of Judgement or torment of the grave.

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Monday, 27 May 2019

Younus AlGohar explains how to tell the difference between Nafs-e-Ammarah (Commanding Self) and Nafs-e-Lawamma (Blameworthy Self) for the novices in spirituality.

Summary:

- The Commanding Self compels you to do bad. However, when you obtain the Opening of the Spiritual Heart with the Personal Name of God, then the Lower Self progresses from the Commanding Self to the Blameworthy Self. What changes is that your Lower Self will make you feel blameworthy after you commit a sin. You will feel regret and the desire to sin will be weakened, however, you will still sin.

- The Commanding Self is recognised by the fact that it becomes happy having committed a sin. If, rather than being happy, you feel bad having sinned, this is proof that your Lower Self is the Blameworthy Self. If you don't have the Commanding Self, then you are already halfway to salvation.

- Once your heart is awakened and divine energy enters the heart, you have to nature its growth by way of performing good deeds and worshipping. If you fail to do this, you will make slow progress in spirituality. The people who strictly follow the other requirements of the religion are the ones who obtain success on this path quickly.

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According to a Prophetic Tradition, God created the bodies of all the prophets with clay from paradise.

- God created Adam the Eminent One’s body in paradise with the clay from paradise. Despite being born normally, the bodies of the prophets who came after him were also created with clay from paradise. Just before a prophet would be born, Gabriel would give his mother fruit from paradise. This would serve two purposes: to introduce both divine energy and the clay of paradise into his body.

- The bodies of common people are dense in nature whereas their soul is ethereal. However, the bodies of the prophets are as ethereal as a common person’s soul. On the other hand, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)’s body is slightly more ethereal than the souls of all the prophets.

God said to Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), ‘I created the heavens and earth for your sake.’

- Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) is God’s beloved. He wanted for nothing. The austerity measures that he used to take were not because he did not have enough food or wealth. Rather, he fasted often and consumed less food and drink because he wanted to avoid weighing down his highly ethereal body with the terrestrial food of Earth.

His Divine Eminence Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi said, ‘Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)’s body was created with the Tree of Divine Light.’

- There was hardly any density in Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)’s body. Whatever density there was in his body was due to the environment he resided in. The average person’s soul reaches the Realm of Souls; however, Prophet Mohammad’s body is even more ethereal than that, therefore he can access the Realm of Souls physically. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) has the Tifl-e-Noori (Body of Divine Light) and Jussa-e-Tofeeq-e-Ilahi (Sub-spirit of God) in his body.

- Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) was escorted physically to the higher realms on the Night of Ascension, but this was merely protocol - he did not need any escort to get there. Yes, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) did travel with Gabriel and then upon the Pegasus in paradise but he didn’t need to. When the disciples asked HDE Gohar Shahi how Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) returned on the Night of Ascension, HDE Gohar Shahi closed His eyes and said, ‘Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said, “I closed my eyes and when I opened them, I was back in my bed.”’

‘We have sent towards you divine energy and the Koran.’ - Koran 5:15

- The divine energy mentioned here is Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). There is no means of travel - no angel or Pegasus - that has more divine energy than Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

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Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Jashan-e-Shahi (Youm-e-Mehdi) is the day relating to His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi’s rank as the awaited Imam Mehdi (as). It falls on 15th Ramadan of every year and is celebrated with zeal and fervour by admirers of His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi around the world!

This year, Jashan-e-Shahi will be celebrated on 20th May 2019. Be sure to watch ALRA TV at 9:30 PM BST on 20th May 2019 for a special lecture by Younus AlGohar.

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Monday, 20 May 2019

Can a Spiritual Guide appointed by God ever commit a sin? Younus AlGohar answers definitively.

Summary:

- All of the Prophets and Messengers are infallible. They do not sin ever. In contrast, before a man is granted sainthood, he may commit sins; he only becomes free from sins when he becomes a saint.

- If a Spiritual Guide could fall prey to sinning, how would he guide the disciples? There is a time before being a saint when he could have sinned - because only the Prophets and Messengers are infallible. But when he has completed his spiritual training and become a saint, he no longer sins.

- Once the Lower Self is purified and has reached the stage of Mutmaina (Contented Self), it does not cause mischief anymore. When the Lower Self - the entity in the body that pushes one to sin - is purified, one becomes free from sins.

The Spiritual Guides who do sin are not true Spiritual Guides. They are impostors.

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Younus AlGohar answers a question from a viewer who asked, ‘I have been watching you for 6 months now. I know you are a Dervish and you practise Sufism. I just don’t understand why different Islamic clerics issue fatwas against you?’

Summary:

- When people asked Abu Huerra to share with them what he had learnt in the company of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), he said, ‘I obtained two types of knowledge from the Prophet (PBUH). I told you one - the outer knowledge. If I told you the other, you would kill me.’ The second type of knowledge was spirituality, which is the knowledge that turns a Muslim into a Devout Believer. It is the knowledge that enlightens the heart. Those who were deprived of this knowledge were divided into sects. History is a testament to the fact that whoever has spoken about spiritual knowledge has always been subject to fatwas of Kufr (disbelief) or been killed.

- The Commanding Self (Nafs-e-Ammarah) compels you to sin. There is no cure to Nafs-e-Ammarah to be found in the outer knowledge. However, spirituality has a cure. Sufism practically makes the heart and Lower Self (Nafs) obedient to God. Without spiritual knowledge the human instincts are not to be seen in the characters of the religious practitioners; they worship and pray and at the same time, they commit fraud and sin.

‘Woe and destruction upon those who perform Salat and yet are unaware of its reality. They are simply showing off.’ - Koran 107:4-6

Prophetic Tradition, ‘The truth must be declared verbally and the heart must affirm it.’

Prophetic Tradition, ‘Salat is invalid without the presence of the heart.’

- If your heart were enlightened, it would have the power to take your Salat to the Empyrean of God. However, your heart was left dark and blackened so your worship Salat never reached God. People saw you performing Salat outwardly, so they praised you - and this praise made you arrogant. One day, you looked at a non-worshipper with disgust and said, ‘I am better than him,’ forgetting that you were echoing the words of the Devil himself. It was arrogance that turned Azazeel into Iblis. Similarly, your Salat, which was invalid, destroyed your faith. In Sufism, you are taught to purify your heart first. Then when you perform Salat, your heart will take your Salat to the Empyrean of God and it will be your culmination as a Devout Believer.

- I speak on this subject because I know it is the truth. Before meeting His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi, I would perform outer Salat like everybody else. After meeting His Divine Eminence, I noticed that sometimes I would be standing and my heart would be the one performing Salat; other times, my souls would go to Bait ul Mamour. There are different types of Salat - Islam dictates that you perform Salat, but it does not specify which type. You could perform Salat with your heart, souls, sub-spirits, etc. You could offer Salat at home, in Bait ul Mamour or even before God himself. When you see God during your Salat, your Salat becomes known as Namaz-e-Ishq.

- When you go to sleep, your Lower Self is free and roams around in satanic gatherings. After it is purified, the Lower Self visits spiritual gatherings in your dreams. When its sub-spirits come out, they travel anywhere in the Terrestrial Realm. When the heart’s sub-spirits come out, they travel to the Realm of Angels. The Main Soul offers Salat in Bait ul Mamour when it is awakened.

- In Abdul Qadir Jilani’s era, 500 religious clerics issued fatwas against him. In today’s day and age, every Tom, Dick and Harry is issuing fatwas regardless of whether or not he is a religious cleric. A disbeliever is one who rejects God. A Sufi is one who negates himself to bring God’s presence within him - there is no greater Devout Believer than such a man.

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Friday, 17 May 2019

Younus AlGohar gives a brief history of the spiritual sciences and its application in this day and age.

Summary:

- God has placed celestial and terrestrial spirits in the human body. The terrestrial spirits are used to form and maintain life in the body. Whereas the celestial spirits’ functions are ethereal - they communicate with God, love God and see God. God sent Adam the Eminent One with the Knowledge of Eminence, the spiritual sciences, which teaches a man how to communicate with him. Through this knowledge, man’s voice began to echo at the Empyrean of God. In the end, with the advent of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), God also sent the knowledge through which man could see him.

- The world has been inhabited for billions of years. Approximately 124 000 prophets were sent and 14 000 Adams in total. Before Adam the Eminent One - the Last Adam -God did not grant any of them the spiritual sciences; they could not communicate with God. All their worship would be purely physical. 6000 years ago, when God told the angels to make Adam’s body in paradise, the angels objected.

- It is mentioned in Koran 2:30 that they said, ‘O’ God, are you making Adam yet again? He will go into the world and cause mischief and bloodshed. And are we not enough to glorify you?’ This was because the angels had seen what previous Adams had already done in the world. However, Hadith-e-Qudsi states, ‘I was in the Hidden Treasure and I loved to be known. Therefore I created the universe.’ The very purpose of creation was so that the creation could recognise God. When the angels objected, God told them in Koran 2:31, ‘I am giving him the Knowledge of My Names (Alam ul Asma). If you have that knowledge, tell me.’ The angels replied in Koran 3:32, ‘How could we have the knowledge which you have not given us?’

- With the introduction of the spiritual sciences, God gave the prophets the names of his attributes (Sifati Ism). God sent the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) with his Personal Name (Zaati Ism). The Stage of Ehsan is that when you worship God, you also see God.

- The knowledge of divine secrets is granted to the Sirri when it is enlightened. Prophet Moses asked for more knowledge because his prophethood was linked to the Sirri. God told him to go to Khidr for that knowledge. The Khafi is the soul that accesses hidden powers. God sent Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) with the prophethood of Akhfah - the most obscure. Through Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), one could reach God. God sent every Grand Messenger with two types of knowledge: outer and inner knowledge. God transfers divine energy, knowledge and spiritual concentration internally - just like how you send emails to one another and cannot see it in transit.

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- Any Muslim who thinks that a Prophet can sin will lose his faith because all Prophets and Messengers are infallible. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) is the leader of the Prophets, therefore we can't even imagine that Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) could sin.

- Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) had more than one wife and he would spend an equal amount of time with all of them during the day. Every wife wanted him to spend extra time with her. One of the wives found out that Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) really liked honey so she brought some. Whenever Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) would come to her, she would present the honey; therefore, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) would end up spending more time with her.

- When the other wives realised what was happening, they went to Bibi Aisha for advice as to what to do. Bibi Aisha advised everyone, 'Tomorrow, when Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) comes to you, tell him that his breath stinks.' The next day, this is exactly what they all said. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) thought, 'I have just eaten honey. Perhaps they are smelling the honey on my breath.' When he came to know that they were all being affected, he declared, 'From this day forth, honey is forbidden for me.' Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) had decided to quit honey simply because he didn't want to trouble anybody.

That was when God revealed this verse of the Koran, 'O' Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) when I have allowed something for you, why do you declare it to be forbidden just because of your wives?' - Koran 66:1

- Here, God was reassuring Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) that he need not quit honey just because his wives claimed to dislike it - especially when it was God who allowed it. God was not implying that Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) had sinned in any way. God only interfered because everything Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) does becomes a Custom for his nation to copy - if he quit honey, his entire nation would be deprived of its benefits.

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Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Younus AlGohar explains the method of Zikar-e-Qalb (Opening of the Spiritual Heart) and its benefits.

Summary:

- It is your heart that practises Zikar-e-Qalb. You do not have access to your own heart therefore you cannot practise it with your own efforts. Zikar-e-Qalb is conferred upon you by God through your Spiritual Guide.

- During the initial period after the seed of God's name is implanted in the heart by the Spiritual Guide, you have to practice visualising God's name and synchronising the repetition of God's name along with your heartbeats. However, you only carry out this practice until your heart is revived. Then you don't have to do anything.

- If there is something wrong with your fleshy heart, you can't do anything yourself. You have to go to a surgeon who will operate on you and fix it. Similarly, Zikar-e-Qalb is a gift of God. The permission of this comes from God through your Spiritual Guide. Once God's name has entered into your heart, the heart thereafter engages itself in Zikar Allah involuntarily. The souls in you volunteer themselves in engagement of Zikar Allah. That is why their invocation continues even when you are sleeping.

- Initially, HDE Gohar Shahi advises the following method for Zikar-e-Qalb: before you go to sleep, practise synchronising God's name with your heartbeats (Zikar-e-Khafi). Visualise God's name inscribed on your heart. If you have trouble visualising God's name, visualise HDE Gohar Shahi holding your index finger and writing God's name with it upon your heart. You only need to do this for the first few days. After that, the heart engages in Zikar on its own.

- In order to come under the spiritual concentration of HDE Gohar Shahi, propagate the divine signs on the Moon, Sun and Holy Black Stone which bear the images of HDE Gohar Shahi. If you reject these divine signs after receiving Zikar-e-Qalb, then your Zikar will be terminated and you will be rejected by God (Mardood). It is not humanly possible to create such an image - the size of at least USA and Canada combined - on the Moon.

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Friday, 10 May 2019

Younus AlGohar explains whether or not one can invoke upon God’s name during a financial crisis.

Summary:

- One of the Ten Commandments God sent to Moses was, ’Thou shalt not taketh the Lord’s name in vain.’ If you take God's name but the divine energy of God's name does not enter your heart, then you have taken his name in vain.

- God did not grant the followers of Abraham his name. This is why in Aramaic, they call God Yahweh (I am). In reply to Abraham asking him his name, God said, 'I am what I am.' God didn’t tell him the name because the power of that particular name of God which would enter the soul had not been granted as part of Prophet Abraham’s prophethood. So if people had been given to take God’s name verbally, it would be taken in vain. The Jews were told that the Moshiach, the Messiah, would come and grant them the new of God.

- The Muslims were given the Personal Name of God through Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). Those who obtained it became part of the Muslim Nation and those who didn’t simply wander here and there. The problem with Muslims is they cannot agree on the fact that Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) saw God, let alone wrap their heads around the idea that they could potentially see God too.

- It is commonly believed that Bibi Aisha said, ‘Whoever says Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) saw God has placed an allegation upon him.’ I carried out an investigation in the esoteric realm; Bibi Aisha came and said, ‘I never said this. I never talked about whether or not Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) saw God.’

- The only thing she actually said on this matter was, ‘Moses would have to use to cover his face following his conversations with God on Mount Sinai. O’ Messenger of God, you have seen God but I don’t see that same intensity upon your face.’ While she was saying this, a theophany emanated from Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)’s face and Bibi Aisha fell unconscious.

- So Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) grant the Muslim Nation the Personal Name of God. However if they don’t reap its spiritual benefits, what makes them greater than other nations? Therefore it is best to use the Personal Name of God to further one’s spiritual goals rather than bother with any financial crisis. When you do this then you financial crises will solve themselves.

‘Woe and destruction upon the worshippers who offer Salat and yet are unaware of its reality.’ - Koran 107:4-7

- To take God’s name without it’s divine energy entering the heart is a waste. Similarly, if you worship but your heart remains dark, then you are deceiving the world by presenting yourself to be a worshipper. This makes you a culprit in the eyes of God.

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Thursday, 9 May 2019

Younus AlGohar explains the reality of rapturous love and how God bestows his rapturous love upon some of his friends.

Summary:

- Rapturous love isn’t to be seen in practicality in the world. When a person reaches the Station of Mehmood through spirituality, his Ana sees God. God’s body is so charismatic that the person feels a strong attraction to God - so strong that they feel like being completely annihilated in God. An extremely intensified bond of attraction forms. Some force from God will pull you and will always pull you. It is like you have been anchored by that bond of attraction. There is no example that can completely illustrate this. However, rapturous love is akin to being very hungry and then finally being served your favourite dish - when you finally have it, you leap towards it eagerly. Rapturous love is such a strong bond of attraction that you become bound by it. You always remain in remembrance of God. This is only developed once you see God.

- If the same attraction develops among any of God’s friends, they are known as Mashooq (beloved). The Aashiq (divine lovers) do not have that attraction - they are always in a state of unease. They cry in remembrance of God. God bestows upon some of his friends the type of attraction that is present in the Realm of Divine Oneness because he knows that not all human beings will be able to see him. So for such people, they obtain that rapturous love from their Spiritual Guide. Similarly, until one sees Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), they cannot be declared to be a divine lover of the Prophet (PBUH).

- In the past, on the Sufi path, ‘Romantic Love’ would be used by Spiritual Guides. They would check which of their disciples were destined for the path. They would tell the chosen disciple to fall in love with a woman. He would then weep in separation from that woman and when he would finally meet her, his love would intensify. Romantic love is purely platonic - those involved are in a long-distance love without physical contact. However, there was a pair of lovers in Punjab, Mirza and Sahiba, who crossed the limits of Romantic Love and tainted it with lust; after that, God stopped the system of Romantic Love in spirituality.

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Younus AlGohar explains what true idol-worship is and whether people today still engage in idol-worship that has been forbidden in Islam.

Summary:

- The difference between the idol-worshippers of the eras of prophets and the idol-worshippers today is that the former knew exactly why they were engaged in idol-worshipping. Whereas, the idol-worshippers of today do not know why they are worshipping idols. In the past, God would send his Messengers and friends who would instruct people on the path to guidance. After their departure from the world, being overcome with emotions of love and affection, the people of the time would create statues of the personalities.

- What he meant was, ‘Do not make an idol of me in order to worship it,’ because this custom was common back then. For example, when people began to engage in wrongful acts at the grave of Moses, the inner faculties of Moses left his grave and so, his grave was void of his presence.

- Idol-worshipping has been going on for a long time. It began from the era of Adam the Eminent One. When Abel killed Cain, the followers of Abel were denied access to the Holy Black Stone. There is an image within the Holy Black Stone. When the followers of Abel were banned from revering the Holy Black Stone, they began to make idols. They thought, 'We no longer have access to the Holy Black Stone and we don't know what the Lord's image looks like.' So, they began to make idols in hopes that one of the idols would resemble the Lord's image.

- Statue-making is an art form as well as a means of worship. People get statues made of themselves or family members anyway just as a memento. For example, there are wax statues of different famous people in Madame Tussauds wax museum. For example, they have statues of Donald Trump, Marilyn Monroe, Shahrukh Khan, Benazir Bhutto and Amitabh Bachan. These statues are not created so that they can be worshipped. Rather, people consider it a great honour and acknowledge of their achievements to have a statue in Madame Tussauds. So whether or not statue-making is forbidden depends on your intention behind making it. If you make a statue to worship it, considering it to be your Lord, this is forbidden. However there is nothing wrong with taking pictures or making a statue as a memento.

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Sunday, 5 May 2019

Younus AlGohar answers a question from a viewer who wanted to know how to recognise whether one’s heart is spiritually alive or not.

Summary:

- Your heart cannot be revived on its own, no matter how many good deeds you do. None of your own efforts can awaken it. It is the Spiritual Guide who awakens the heart.

- HDE Gohar Shahi explains that if someone is unaware of the properties of a chicken egg, they will never believe that the egg would one day fly and chirp. Just as there are chicken eggs, there is also a Terrestrial Egg In every human being. The chicken egg has three layers upon it and the Terrestrial Egg has 180 000 layers on it. In order to hatch the egg, you need a hen who will give it heat. To hatch the Terrestrial Egg, you need a Spiritual Guide who will give it the appropriate amount of divine energy according to the heart of the person.

- When the chicken egg hatches, a chick comes out and it begins chirping without being taught to do so because chirping is in its nature. Similarly when the angel will come out from the Spiritual Heart, you won't have to teach it anything. It will immediately start to make mention of God's name because this is in its nature.

'And I have created human beings and Jinns to worship me.' - Koran 51:54

- The sign of the heart being alive is simply that it be engages in invocation of God's name. You will be sleeping and God's name will be resounding in the beating system of your heart. The heart is only awakened with the spiritual concentration of a Spiritual Guide. And those who engage in verbal invocation of God's name without reviving their hearts are simply wasting their time.

- There are 180 000 layers upon the heart: 30 000 of lust, 30 000 of covetness, 30 000 of arrogance, 30 000 of jealousy and 30 000 of grudges. The Spiritual Guide first removes these layers; he burns them with his spiritual concentration. Then he revives the heart.

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Younus AlGohar explains how to recognise the false claimants of sainthood in light of the Koran and the actions of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

- As a Messenger, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) established the religion of Islam. However, as a prophet, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) introduced reformations in others’ religions such as Christianity and Judaism. Therefore, some verses of the Koran are addressed towards Muslims and some others are addressed to all.

‘O’ Devout Believers, many religious clerics and rabbis consume the wealth of human beings which they have no right to. And they become hurdles in the way to God.’ - Koran 9:34

- The Wahhabis try to turn this verse of the Koran towards the saints of God. However, this is in reference to the imposters among Christians and Jews. There is no concept of rabbis in Islam, so obviously, this is not for Muslim saints. The original meaning of the word ‘rabbi’ here means one who adopts hermitage.

- No religious cleric from among the Muslims, Christians and Jews can outright stop people on the path to God. In order to understand the false claimants of sainthood, you have to first recognise a true saint. There are 16 entities in the human body altogether - a true Spiritual Guide is one who revives them and strengthens them with divine energy so that they can reach their respective destinations and be unified with God. When a person pledges allegiance to a Spiritual Guide, he sells himself to the Spiritual Guide and now his Spiritual Guide has all rights upon his body. Now the Spiritual Guide can take all his physical wealth and be completely justified in doing so. In return, the Spiritual Guide takes the responsibility of the disciple’s souls.

- An imposter cannot take the disciples’ souls to God. People remain under the impression that the imposter can take them to God but the subtleties are wasted in the body. Therefore he renders them unable to reach God. The imposter becomes a murderer of all of the disciple’s 16 souls. When an imposter takes a pledge of allegiance from a disciple and then takes their physical wealth, he has no right to it. He does not have the spiritual power or authority to enlighten them and take them to God. This is what Koran 9:34 referred to. A false claimant of sainthood is a spiritual murderer. If he has 1000 disciples, he is a murderer of 16 000 souls.

- HDE Gohar Shahi is reviving the dormant humanity. He is restoring life in the hearts and souls that had wasted away and died. This is evidence that He is the awaited Imam Mehdi. Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi is the giver of life to souls.

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Friday, 3 May 2019

Younus AlGohar replies to a follower of the Zikiri religion who declared his admiration and love for His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi. He explains the conditions set by God for one to be a friend of God according to God’s three-point plan.

Summary:

- People who follow any religion cannot think beyond the limits set by that religion. The concept and parameters of religion are very limited. Religion teaches a person two things: The first being how to establish a connection with God and how to become godly. Secondly, religion teaches its practitioner how to live their life in the world. This is so that they are considered good in the eyes of God and the world. How to live in the world and how to behave with people of this world is taught by a knowledge of the religion called Sharia (the religious law). How the connection to God must be established is taught by Tariqat (Spirituality).

- The Koran is very explicit about three points in Koran 2:62: belief in God, belief in the Day of Judgement and possession of Amal-e-Sualeh. If you fulfil these three conditions, then whether you are a Christian, Jew, Sabian or a Muslim, you are like a friend of God in the eyes of God. The Lord will give you a reward from himself. And you shall have no fear or sorrow.

- The Sabians were star-worshippers. So if someone worships the Sun or Moon, God will not dismiss them right away. He will check to see whether or not they fulfil the conditions set by Koran 2:62. If you take note of what God said here, the horizons of your mind will be broadened and you will learn tolerance. As long as your religion enables you to achieve these three points mentioned in Koran 2:62 in you, you are okay no matter what religion you follow.

Koran 26:88 states, ‘Neither your sons nor wealth shall benefit you on the Day of Judgement. Only those who bring with them a Qalb-e-Saleem (Secured Heart) will be successful.’

- It doesn’t matter what religion you belong to as long as you have divine energy in you. Then all people with divine energy are your brothers. This is God’s three-point plan to unify humanity. It does not emphasise the importance of any religion. Your ultimate destination is not the religion - it is God. These teachings are mentioned in the Koran but the only personality who did it justice was His Divine Eminence Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi.

- God said in Koran 9:28 not to allow the polytheists into Mecca. However, the Muslims banned all non-Muslims. This is how intolerance and short-sighted they are. Whereas in Koran 3:97 God said that he has made Hajj obligatory upon all humanity, not just Muslims. People say that you need to perform Salat to become a Devout Believer, but God made Salat obligatory for people who were already Devout Believers. When a Devout Believer offers Salat then the Salat becomes his culmination.

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Thursday, 2 May 2019

Younus AlGohar explains all about the esoteric disease of stubbornness and how it can be cured.

Summary:

- Stubbornness is an esoteric disease attached with the Lower Self in which the Lower Self does not accept a diet of divine energy. It is the result of one being disobedient to their Spiritual Guide or Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). The cure to stubbornness is to be completely obedient to the Spiritual Guide. People who do whatever they wish despite being given advice are stubborn and, practically, they worship their Lower Self. Your Spiritual Guide will often tell you to do things - even minor things - which you may think are insignificant. However, it is equally important to obey the Spiritual Guide in minor matters as it is to obey him in religious matters.

- To have faith in the Spiritual Guide is to have faith in God. It is the Spiritual Guide who tests you on behalf of God. It is said in regards to the Fakirs, ‘The tongue of a Fakir is the sword of God.’

- Six months after HDE Gohar Shahi completely cleansed my heart and placed the Personal Name of God therein, I started to feel as if my chest was filled with heat. I would want to put ice on my chest but it would immediately melt within 10-15 seconds. Then one day I heard popping noises coming from my chest and all my subtleties came before me. However, my subtleties had taken on new appearances: they appeared to be different elderly men which I later found out to be the Grand Messengers. The Spiritual Heart now resembled Adam the Eminent One. The Human Soul resembled Abraham, the Sirri resembled Moses, the Khafi resembled Jesus and the Akhfah resembled Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). They would come out and advise me about how to follow the Spiritual Guide and how to behave in spirituality. Then I prayed to God to grant me an intense love of HDE Gohar Shahi - so intense that it is nowhere to be seen among the followers of any Grand Messenger. When I would make this prayer, I would see HDE Gohar Shahi’s smiling face.

- One day, HDE Gohar Shahi was sitting in one room and I was in another engaging in the invocation of God’s name. A thought came to me, ‘How can I turn my back to HDE Gohar Shahi and engage in invocation? This is disrespect.’ An esoteric sword came into my hands and the words began to echo, ‘Neither this heart nor this invocation belongs to you,’ over and over again. And with those words, through the esoteric sword, the Personal Name of God was effaced from my heart. That esoteric sword is capable of removing all else but HDE Gohar Shahi from you. It can remove the devil from within and also remove the disease of stubbornness or hypocrisy. I have this sword with me and I can use it on anyone who proves that they genuinely want to belong to HDE Gohar Shahi.

- It takes two hands to clap. Both parties have to be willing in order for you to be blessed. There are some people the Lord wants to bless but that person doesn’t prove that they also want the Lord. But the moment one truly exhibits through their actions that they want the Lord, the esoteric sword will be used to help free them of their esoteric diseases.

- The stubborn Lower Selves are always in the state of Ammarah (Commanding Self). They cannot even be changed by the theophanies of God. They come to the Spiritual Guide but they ask for the world, not the Lord. If you show respect before the Spiritual Guide, your Lower Self will be treated of its illnesses.

- To be a follower of Imam Mehdi and to appear to be a follower of Imam Mehdi are two different things. There are many people who claim to be a follower of HDE Gohar Shahi. However, only those are followers of HDE Gohar Shahi who have His image on their hearts or His name written on the heart.

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Younus AlGohar explains why the end of the world is linked directly to the advent of Imam Mehdi.

Summary:

- When we talk about God's plans, it is not an exact date. It is just a rough idea. It is possible that due to some changes in circumstances that plan may not be executed; it may be extended. Nothing is definite because changes in situations and circumstances can move the plan around. There are no dates or months like December, February, January, etc. where God lives so God does not set exact dates for his plans.

- Whenever there was a dust storm in the era of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), the Companions would think the world is ending. They would persistently ask Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) when the world would end. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) would say, 'You have to prepare for it first.'

- This world was supposed to end in 2026. His Divine Eminence said in His book, The Religion of God (Divine Love), 'The asteroid is expected to fall on Earth in the next 20-25 years. That will be the last day of this world.' There are only a few years left. Out of all the followers of His Divine Eminence, I am the only one who is saying that the asteroid has been suspended.

- An era of Imam Mehdi passed in which Imam Mehdi gathered His staff. For example, when you open a restaurant, the first thing you do is gather your staff - the waiters, chefs, custodians, etc. Similarly, in the first era of Imam Mehdi, He prepared His team, His cabinet. When His cabinet was formed, He said to them, 'Believe me, neither am I preparing you for God nor for paradise. I am preparing you for Imam Mehdi.' And then He said, 'Simply supporting Him will be enough for you.'

- Right now, you can say that Imam Mehdi is on vacations. Or if you want to put it in religious terms then He has adopted Seclusion. The propagation of Imam Mehdi is ongoing. So how can the world end before the arrival of Imam Mehdi? Even if Imam Mehdi was to stay in Seclusion for 2000 years the world still wouldn't end. The end of the world has been connected to the advent of Imam Mehdi. Until His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi's advent takes place, He establishes his Sultanate, connects the aspiring hearts to God, fills the universe with justice, even thinking about the end of the world is a sin.

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Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Younus AlGohar explains once and for all in light of the Koran whether the Caliph of the time was correct in taking the Garden of Fadak from Bibi Fatima and using it to serve Muslims.

Summary:

- Moula Ali was present when Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) gifted the Garden of Fadak to Bibi Fatima. He was also there when the Caliph of the time took the Garden of Fadak from Bibi Fatima saying that it was not hers, but rather the property of Muslims. Despite being in the right, Moula Ali did not argue with the Caliph because his esoteric honour did not allow him to do so over the sake of his own property, especially when the Caliph said that he would use the Garden of Fadak for the Muslim community.

- The Garden of Fadak was obtained by the Muslims as part of war loot. Many of the soldiers fighting for Islam thought that because they were the ones who fought and defeated the enemy, they were the ones with rights to the war loot. It was with this notion in mind that many Companions took items from the war loot for themselves. Those who did so were declared to be hypocrites by Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). People asked the Prophet who had rights to the war loot; Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) waited for God to reveal an answer in the Koran.

O' Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), people ask you questions about the war loot.' Tell them that God and his Messenger have the rights to the war loot.' - Koran 8:1

- This means that Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) has exclusive rights because God is not on Earth. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) gifted the Garden of Fadak, which was war loot, to his daughter. In that era, there was no paperwork so there was no documentary evidence of Bibi Fatima owning the Garden of Fadak; Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) verbally declared that it belonged to her.

- Perhaps it wasn't in the knowledge of the Caliph at the time that Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) had complete rights to all war loot. He must have also not known that if Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) gave something to his daughter, he as the Caliph had no authority to take it from her. When he took the Garden of Fadak from Bibi Fatima, he blasphemed the Koran and the Prophet. He committed injustice and went against the Koran.

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- Hazir means present. Physically, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) has been present in the Holy City of Medina. Whereas, spiritually, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) can be present anywhere in the world with the sub-spirits of his Spiritual Heart and Lower Self whenever he so wishes. However, to say that he is present everywhere is a self-fabricated tenet of the Barelvis. The Prophet is not present just anywhere unnecessarily.

- If somebody calls upon the Prophet, 'O Messenger of God, help me', the Prophet possesses the power to be present spiritually and help the person. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) possesses the ability, power and divine permission to be present wherever and whenever he wishes in this universe created by God.

- God is greater than Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and God says, 'I do not look at your faces and deeds,' so would Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) see the things which even God doesn't look at? If the Prophet is looking at a single enlightened heart among millions of hearts, it proves that the Prophet is all-seeing. But this doesn't mean that all those who send benedictions upon the Prophet are under the merciful glance of the Prophet.

God said in the Koran, 'O Prophet! Truly, we have sent you as a Witness, a Bearer of Glad Tidings.' [33:45]

- Now, if the Prophet has been sent as a witness to this world then was that only for the duration of 23 years? Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) has always been all-seeing. Those who don't believe this are disbelievers. However, the Prophet is all-seeing only for his true believers. Had he been looking at everybody, he would not have allowed them to be divided into sects. The Prophet is all-seeing upon those who are connected to his heart, whereas, those who are not connected are not being seen by God let alone the Prophet.

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